![]() ![]() I love all the music, but these two have proven to be the most useful: The King and I has two songs I've used a lot with beginners. Last year one of my voice students sang "Far from the Home I Love" while another (advanced) piano student accompanied her. There are other great songs from this musical ("If I Were a Rich Man," "Tradition," and others) but I have felt they were too long to work with unless we actually planned some kind of stage production involving a number of performers. It is very well-known, and sure to inspire a tear or two from an audience (and maybe from the music teacher as well!). "Sunrise, Sunset," is sweet but kind of sad, with poetic lyrics about seeing childhood disappear, and the child become a bride or groom. I have recently written a piano interlude (free!) to bridge verse 1 and verse 2 it calls for a bit of acting on the part of your singer(s), and promises to be fun! Girls love this fast-paced waltz about hoping for the perfect bridegroom, and though it is a duet, there is no harmony (unless you care to write a bit in). However, it SOUNDS harder than it really is, and with a bit of practice, these spots are doable. ![]() ![]() Though the piano accompaniment is great fun, it has some fast-moving octave jumps which make it a bit of a tour-de-force (for the pianist!). The re are even two songs for guys: "Do I Love You" (so beautiful), and "Ten Minutes Ago," which works as a solo or as a duet between a guy and a girl.įiddler On the Roof features one of my students' favorite Broadway duets, "Matchmaker". "A Lovely Night" and "Ten Minutes Ago" are very lovely for older girls. Younger girls adore "In My Own Little Corner" and "Impossible".there is lots of scope for the imagination in those songs. So there's something in this book for almost everyone.Ĭinderella is one of the best Broadway shows for kids I know, since it has a number of good choices for beginning girl singers. Wow! That's a lot of great music! Most of them are pretty energetic and just plain fun, but two are slower, and very pretty: "They Say That Falling in Love is Wonderful," and "Moonlight Melody." "I've Got the Sun in the Morning," "There's No Business Like Show Business," "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun," "Doin' What Comes Naturally," the famous guy/girl duet, "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better," and even more. Go light on the pedal, too!Īnnie Get Your Gu n will interest older students. It is just full of singable Broadway songs. ![]() The bigger, fancier arrangements sometimes drown the voice of your newer, younger, just-getting-started voice student. I like both the Easy Piano/Vocal Edition and the regular book - one thing to keep in mind with young girls is that too full and heavy a piano accompaniment does no favors to the performance or the performer. I will give the songs to students who like them, regardless of the volume problem, and we will just keep working at projecting in the lower register. "Maybe" is slow, thoughtful, and very pretty, but the unusual sudden key changes, which make the song so interesting and fresh-feeling, also make the melody a bit difficult to sing for kids with any kind of pitch-memory problems.īoth songs go below Middle C, so a successful performance requires a voice that has some volume down there. "It's the Hard-Knock Life" is really fun, with great lyrics, lots of energy, and fresh-sounding chord progressions. Annie, greatly beloved by little girls, has a couple of songs I like much better than "Tomorrow". ![]()
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